PESHAWAR: A young Pakistani was killed as he pretended to shoot himself while being filmed by friends for a TikTok video, police said Thursday.
Hamidullah, 19, who police said was well-known locally on social media, held a friend’s pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger, unaware the gun was loaded.
“The young man died on spot,” said Badshah Hazrat, a senior police official in the northwestern Swat Valley.
While the clip of the incident was not uploaded to TikTok, police said friends circulated it among themselves and it soon spread further afield.
“The young man was locally famous and active on TikTok,” Hazrat told AFP.
The 19-year-old had more than 8,000 followers and posted nearly 600 TikTok clips.
Most were of him playing pranks with friends, cricket, or featured life in the rugged and picturesque valley.
The death was just the latest incident of a social media stunt gone wrong in Pakistan.
A security guard was killed in Karachi last year while toying with his rifle as he filmed a TikTok clip, while in January another teenager died after being struck by a train while filming for the app in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan teen dies in TikTok fake suicide stunt gone wrong
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Pakistan teen dies in TikTok fake suicide stunt gone wrong
- Hamidullah was killed as he pretended to shoot himself while being filmed by friends for a TikTok video
- The death is just the latest incident of a social media stunt gone wrong in Pakistan
Pakistan’s deputy PM discusses ways to boost economic, trade ties with Iran
- Both countries agreed in August to increase bilateral trade to $10 billion by 2028
- Pakistan and Iran have been working to stabilize relations after strained security ties
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar presided over a meeting to discuss economic and trade cooperation with Iran, the foreign office said on Friday, as the neighboring countries seek to expand ties.
The development took place during an inter-ministerial meeting on Pakistan-Iran bilateral relations chaired by Dar in Islamabad. Pakistan and Iran have been working to stabilize ties following a period of strained security relations.
Both countries have been working to enhance bilateral trade, setting up border markets and exploring barter trade to circumvent banking and currency restrictions. Sanctions and foreign exchange shortages remain key hurdles for Iran, making these alternative systems central to its trade strategy with Pakistan.
“The meeting reviewed ongoing cooperation across a range of sectors and discussed ways to further enhance economic and trade ties,” the foreign office said in a statement.
“The DPM/FM reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to deepening engagement with Iran in key priority areas.”
In December, the foreign ministers of Iran and Pakistan vowed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in trade and connectivity while working for regional peace.
Iranian President Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian also visited Pakistan in August, during which both countries signed agreements to increase bilateral trade to $10 billion by 2028.
